An Illinois resident has recently joined litigation against device manufacturer Zimmer after, he claims, he experienced complications related to his Zimmer knee device. The lawsuit was originally filed in the current ongoing Zimmer knee multidistrict litigation case in the United States' District Court for the... Read More

A lawsuit in the multidistrict litigation for lawsuits involving Zimmer knee problems from the NexGen line of knee implants was amended recently. The plaintiff, Charles Crossnoe of Maury County, Tennessee, and his wife Sharon, who is a co-plaintiff, had originally used the MDL's master long... Read More

According to a new short form complaint filed by his Zimmer knee attorney on July 25, 2012, a plaintiff from California asserted that his Zimmer NexGen CR-Flex knee failed him only nine months after he had it implanted. This plaintiff is another in a growing... Read More

Zimmer NexGen knee implants were released on the market in 2003. In 2010, orthopedic surgeon and former Zimmer consultant Richard Berger reported that he and his colleagues had observed that after two years of use, 36% of the Zimmer NexGen CR-Flex knee implants had loosened... Read More

A new lawsuit in the Zimmer MDL charges that Massachusetts resident Kathleen Drago was forced to undergo double Zimmer knee revision surgery after the failure of NexGen CR-Flex devices in both her left and right knees. The lawsuit was filed against Zimmer, et al. on... Read More

 In response to the large number of lawsuits and reports of serious complications from various medical implants, including reported Zimmer knee problems from NexGen CR-Flex knee implants, FDA has proposed a new regulation that would require all new medical devices to have unique device identifiers,... Read More

John Hall had the Zimmer knee device surgically implanted on August 20, 2007. He claims his Zimmer knee NexGen knee failure resulted in consistent pain and loosening of the device. Ultimately he required revision surgery to repair it in December of 2008. A claim of... Read More

The New Jersey Supreme Court has rejected Zimmer Inc.'s motion for a mass tort that would centralize NexGen Flex knee litigation in New Jersey. Zimmer had moved for creation of a mass tort in Middlesex County on December 15, 2011, arguing that centralizing the proceedings... Read More